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"Gazette of the Temp. Workers' and Peasants' Government" No. 10 of November 23, 1917, "Collection of Decrees and Dispositions" No. 3, *December 21 (8), 1917*; according to which the maximum salary for People's Commissars (unmarried) must not exceed 500 rubles. For each able-bodied member of the family an addition of 100 rubles was established.

Later, on July 16, 1918, Lenin raised the question before the SNK concerning a salary increase for the Commissars, in connection with the illness of A. D. Tsyurupa caused by malnutrition. By this time money had sharply depreciated.

The note was published by N. P. Gorbunov in his article "How Vladimir Ilyich Worked" (see "Izvestiya VTsIK" No. 19 of 1924).

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AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF THE RSFSR.

[Before June 28, 1918]

CONSTITUTION

of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.

Chapter I.

General Principles.

1. All power within the limits of the R.S.F.S.R. Republic belongs to the entire working population of the country, united in Soviets of deputies, or Sovdepy.

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8. As socialist soviet power becomes established in other countries, the R.S.F.S.R. enters into a single Union of socialist Federative[and] soviet republics with them.

X soviet or other proletarian.

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Chapter II.

On the Rights of Local Soviets and Their Congresses.

12. Local Soviets and their Congresses autonomously guarantee the rights of national culture to the working population living within the territory under their jurisdiction.

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with obligatory guarantee of equality and rights of minorities.

14. Those Soviets in which persons designated in Part 1 of Article 13 are permitted to participate in elections and enjoy the right to be elected, or in which the provisions on representation established above are violated, are deprived of the right of representation at the Congresses.

X This is not enough: they must be dissolved.